#turntable lab

[hacker4cats]

[warhead]

[princeklassen]

Serve Warm: A TTL Spotify Playlist

This was put together Winter 2021 going into Spring 2022 for Turntable Lab. The playlist was featured in their ongoing zine series and can still be heard on their Spotify account. 

The mix was comprised of songs of seasonal & emotional change brought on by the rough times of day to day living in New York during a pandemic. While not trying to dissect every track, the goal was to reach a calmness that hadn’t been felt in a long time and a hopeful glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel.

Listen to Serve Warm Here

[intertexts]

@stuck-in-the-ghost-zone STICKER TOUR. the ufo & the whale were actually the first ones hehehe <33 ufo in the desert is bc. roswell. roswell new mexico. + the no lone zone & fallout shelter ones were from the minuteman missile historic site in south dakota where i went at the PEAK of my snowchester era & completely rewired my brain, & the entirely rubbed off one is from a cute coffee shop near there.... acadia national park one bc that's my favorite park of all time, the chicken tattoo & gopher sandcastles r from my brother + the lil twice one is from my effective sister in law + the tiny cat one is from my typography professor + the washi tape is critrole m9 themed :3

[jelabs]

[starrysharks]

i need proper name for oc groups/duos tbh... the initials just aren't fun enough

[halfacupofmilk]

just when you think life isn’t worth living…. andre 3000 new blue sky limited edition album

[aceofspades-11b]

WE COOKED IN CHEM LAB TODAY AJCBWJBVEWJBVLKJWBVLKWV LKWVLKWN VLKWV

major missing @ozziesdisco

[vizreef]

Well Tempered Lab Classic turntable (US/ New Zealand, 1988)

[homestuckreplay]

dave's gonna be pissed!!

(page 339-343)

I love when a story introduces a few separate and seemingly unrelated elements, and then gathers them all together in a neat conclusion that's even more satisfying because it's kind of unexpected. Homestuck does this on a really small scale - for example, the Sassacre book crushing the smoke pellets on p.96 bringing together John's sylladex accidents, the father-son prankster's gambit, and the two previous mentions of the Sassacre book's ability to crush things. But this is my favorite example yet.

A pattern is established with John and Rose that each character gets a command formatted as [strange noise/action] like a [creature] and [bodily function] on your [furniture]. Neither of these are relevant.

Dave's command is 'Bleat like a goat and piss on your turntable'. (p.315) but Dave 'would never consider allowing any fluid even remotely resembling urine to touch your beloved TURNTABLES.'

John gets a Little Monsters movie poster for his birthday and messages Dave about his favorite scene, where a monster pees in a kid's juice.

Later in the story, we see Dave find the bottle of apple juice in his closet that he found at the same moment that he was inspired to message John.

The Sburb Beta discs are established early on as a coveted item in the world of Homestuck, its importance increasing until it becomes the only item that can save the world.

Dave, who had a copy of this game before its true importance was established, reveals that he has lost it, and that 'its a stupid story and id rather not talk about it shit be embarrassing yo' (p.294)

All this comes together very delightfully when Dave finds himself unable to drink his unopened bottle of apple juice, unsettled by John's suggestion that a monster could reseal the bottle after pissing in it. He puts the juice back in his sylladex and immediately picks up another item, which forcefully ejects the juice, explaining the story of how Dave's game discs got damaged and fulfilling the prophecy of allowing a fluid resembling urine to touch his turntables.

This comic is basically engineered in a lab to be like one of those photo galleries of tiles that perfectly interlock and candy that's arranged in a perfect color gradient, it scratches the same itch. It's a storytelling technique that has infinite potential, but only works if it's spot on.

The Dave characterization here is really striking. Little Monsters is a movie where monsters under kids' beds are 100% real supernatural entities that make use of weird spatial/dimensional rules to play mean pranks on kids. Despite his obvious coolness and mastery of irony, and how dismissive he is of John's movie based interests. Dave can't shake the part of his brain that's like 'but what if monsters are real, what if there's one under my bed too'. I think he's like Rose in terms of meticulously constructing a personality that feels more 'adult', but their more childish aspects still slipping through the cracks (and nothing shows this better than their conversation on p.333 where they sound like they're rehearsing dialogue for the stage).

I've been thinking about John embodying characters from all his favorite movies, but maybe Dave is actually the Brian Stevenson parallel, right down to the sunglasses.

[taohun]

japanese breakfast, soft sounds from another planet, turntable lab bubblegum pink exclusive

[80sheaven]

Tandy catalogue 1982/83 - features an STA-790 stereo receiver, LAB-290 belt-drive turntable, and SCT-29 cassette deck.

[youzicha]

Feeling annoyed by this story which I saw on twitter today.

In March 2020 some scientists published a paper in Nature Medicine saying that the Covid-19 virus does not show any signs of being produced by genetic engineering. Later some Slack chats and emails emerged which reveal that the paper authors still thought it's plausible that it could be a lab leak of a wild virus. Also, before submitting to Nature Medicine they had submitted to Nature—in that review cycle one of the reviewers said they should state that this rules out a lab leak, and they had replied that you can't in fact conclude that.

And now Donald McNeil, a NYT journalist who wrote articles discounting the lab leak hypothesis, has published a book where he says this shows that the scientists “clearly misled me early on. ... disappointed, both in them and in myself, that I was so easily taken in. ... It’s one thing to be lied to by a politician and fail to check it out. But on viral evolution, to whom do you go for a second opinion? … If Albert Einstein assured you that nuclear fission is harmless, whom would you trust to quote saying, ‘Einstein’s dead wrong?’”.

But come on. First, it's amusing to see a New York Times journalist complain about people publishing true but misleading information. Oh how the turntables!

But second, this information just objectively isn't all that misleading. I was there, in 2020! I remember reading this paper when it was in the news, and thinking “I see, I guess this is evidence against genetic engineering but not against escape of a wild virus.” Other people on twitter and tumblr were saying the same thing. This is not some kind of esoteric viral evolution lore, it is obvious if you just read the introduction paragraph of the paper.

Maybe McNeil preferred to not read anything and instead email with the authors. Per the leaked Slack chats, they told him exactly that:

From a genomics perspective, the theories Richard Ebright lay out [i.e. a lab leak] I would expect would look the same—there would be no way to distinguish them.

Like, these people had an agenda to downplay the possibility of a lab leak, but they were careful to be completely truthful in everything they said. If McNeil drew less accurate conclusions from it than a bunch of randos on twitter did, I think that's mainly on him.

[peanuts-fan]

Vince Guaraldi Trio : “Peanuts Greatest Hits”

by Turntable Lab

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[ohshy]

do u have any bald bull or soda popinski headcanons ? 🩷

HELL YEAHHH u get both !!!!!

🫧Soda Popinski🫧

keeps trying to get hippo to try different types of soda. hippo tried one once and nearly passed out from the amount of sugar. needless to say, it was funny and a little scary trying to explain it to passerby

soda is one of the few people that knows about kaiser's berliner partying days. its something kaiser likes to keep secret, seeing as he feels like he has a ''reputation to protect''. it did help that soda's a very gregarious guy in general though, he just has a certain energy ab him that makes people wanna confess things to him.

in general, soda knows how to keep secrets really well, especially if he spills anything about the russian government, the consequences might be dire…

speaking of the russian government, his mother is a scientist who originally created soda in a lab as an assignment to create the ultimate fighting machine. as such, she isn't allowed to have full custody of her son, as he partially belongs to the government lab. Poor lady…

all of soda's family and acquaintances are nicknamed after soda. He has a girlfriend named cola (credit to mabs for that idea), his mother is nicknamed popuschka, and he calls his headscientist dr pepper.

like ive said before, he learns english from macho and disco, and often gets words mixed up. one time he called macho man ''brogus'' and macho absolutely hated it.

has a tendency to underestimate his strength a little. if you make him laugh particularly hard, he'll slap you on the back and you'll likely end up w/ a fractured spine. (exaggarated obviously, but it WILL hurt)

hangs around a lot w/ the other two nicest guys of the WVBA, them being disco kid and bear hugger. disco refers to their squad as the ''turntable trio'', as they all like to dance. ms bear makes him feel at home as well, but the squirrell freaks him out a little. also shares a sweet tooth w/ hugger so theres that too hehe.

aside from soda, total sucker for certain russian desserts, especially medovik and pastila.

🐂Bald Bull🐂

comes from a rich family. his ma is a singer and his dad a retired athlete

along w/ a mansion, has a HUGE ranch where cows n bulls roam, this is how he became inspired to name himself bald bull.

quite the introverted guy, and doesnt socialize much outside of his own circuit. He is quite chummy with Sandman and Soda though. One time, he offered Soda a turkish delight , and the rest is history. He also relates a lot to sandman due to both having issues w/ quick irritability.

the only other person outside the world circuit that bull interacts with is disco kid, mainly thanks to the fact him and soda are acquinted. Disco gave bull a rly nice outlet for his anger issues, namely dancing! Disco one day saw bull roll his fists in the ring, thought ''WOW that guy can really move !!!!'' bc it reminded him of a classic disco dance. he then talked to soda about him and the rest is history :3

Audhd. paparazzi not withstanding, does not manage his symptoms well.

has very mixed feelings on his mom. On one hand, her voice is like sweet nostalgia to him because she always sang him sweet lullabies, but at the other hand she has broken his trust in many ways that he feels cant be repaired. gets along better w/ his dad tho

used to have a rly sweet school girl type giggle, but his family teased him out of it :(

thinks hes like clark kent whenever he disguises himself as Mask X. the world circuit all know, but the paparazzi is none the wiser somehow. dw nobody in the WVBA will tell :]

interests outside of boxing include arm wrestling, farm animals, and (very rarely) singing. You gotta b real special for him to sing for you. Very private person in general.

[jelabs]